Social media explodes with posts and memes ridiculing Biplab Kumar Deb’s claim that satellites and internet existed during Mahabharata.

Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday: “Not US and other western countries, but the
internet was invented by India lakhs of years ago. Many may decline the fact, but if the internet was not there, how Sanjay could see the war in Kurukshetra and describe it to Dhritarashtra? It means internet was there, satellites and that technology was there in this country.”

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "Lazy archaeologists have been busy digging up stones & rocks when they should have been unearthing remains of computers & server banks of ancient Indian internet."

On Wednesday: “Narrow-minded people find it tough to believe this. They want to belittle their own nation and think highly of other countries.”